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To the Editor: Re: the Tribeca Trib’s article “Battery Park City President Gayle Horwitz to Resign Her Post” in your online edition.

Less than two years ago, when Horwitz took over as the Authority’s President, the area was already known as the home of the art of sculptor Tom Otterness, whose work has delighted thousands of residents and passersby.

In the spring of 2011, a community board 1 committee voted 5-to-1 to approve the donation by Tom Otterness of a group of lion sculptures for the entrance of the Battery Park City Library. The Battery Park City Authority, which had just been turned over to Ms. Horwitz, passed on the donation.

Although she denied it, Ms. Horwitz might have been influenced by something horrible the artist had done in the 1970s: he had shot a dog in a short film as a form of war protest.

I cannot imagine banning art in our town due to an immoral past deed of an artist. Under such scrutiny, our libraries and museums would be nearly empty.

Imagine if those who opposed abortion removed all museum art by women who had abortions? I love “Naked Lunch” by William Burroughs—didn’t he shoot and kill his wife? The Battery Park City and other local libraries have copies of “Naked Lunch.” Does this send a message that Otterness next time should kill his wife and not shoot a dog?

The banned art should be revisited with Ms. Horwitz’s resignation. I strongly advise those at the Battery Park City Authority to accept this gift of community art, which has been thoroughly vetted and is from an artist whose work already adorns and is loved by our neighborhood.

Tom Goodkind CB1 BPC Committee member

Food cart vendors don’t belong in City Hall Park

School waitlist situation is painted too rosy

To the Editor: What’s with the food carts in City Hall Park’s northeast plaza?

It’s another case of the New York City Parks Department and Mayor Mike Bloomberg going back on their word.

When the Friends of City Hall Park were asked in 2006, we said “absolutely no food carts,” and the Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Castro agreed.

Within a half block of City Hall Park there are plentiful restaurants and food stores as well as other food carts.

We don’t need the noise, smells, commerce, and tumult surrounding these carts (and the ice cream truck for that matter).

Our rapidly growing neighborhood is desperate for calm green space, yet the mayor is taking away our quality of life right outside his window.

Keep the park a park, and keep the vendors out.

Skip Blumberg Founder/President Friends of City Hall Park

To the Editor: I read Connie Schraft’s article on P.S. 89 (September Trib), and am pleased that the school absorbed the remaining waitlisted children. But I was concerned with the tone of the article, which gave entirely too rosy a picture of our need for school seats and what it means to parents to have their child waitlisted. Certainly, there are families that dropped off the list as it was too disconcerting to wait until September for a possible seat. The column also failed to mention that this was only because P.S. 234 opened a 6th kindergarten (not possible next year, and accomplished by underserving special education kids) and because P.S. 276 took five kindergartens when its capacity is three. The fallout is that the school will have 29 students in its 1st grade this year and will not be able to admit a 5th grade or kindergarten in Fall 2013.

Things will only get worse. We need the Trib to help us get the message out as you have in the past.

Paul Hovitz Co-chair, CB1 Youth Committee

Jackie Robinson should be a role model for today’s athletes

To the Editor: Reading about the Jackie Robinson Museum planned for Varick and Canal streets in the September Trib reminded me that, sadly, most Americans— including many athletes—have forgotten the man who was not simply “The First Black MLB Player.”

Born to a sharecropper family, and raised with his siblings by a single mother, he became an All-American athlete at UCLA. Forced to leave 6 8 14

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school for financial reasons, he enlisted in the Army and rose to rank of second lieutenant. Court-martialed for fighting racial discrimination—a charge later dropped—his greatest battle soon followed.

When Dodger president Branch Rickey chose Robinson, a man of immense pride and self-respect, to break the color barrier, he told him he would face virulent hate and threats of violence, but that he could not resort to either physical or verbal retaliation.

The inhuman stress Robinson endured for a great cause, his years of diabetes and its consequences undoubtedly led to his premature death at 53.

Some of today’s athletes, bedecked in “bling” and tattoos, and always ready to fight anyone who contacts them too hard or “disses them,” should be ashamed at their concept of manhood compared to what Jackie Robinson endured for all people inside and outside the arena.

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Artificial Turf at City Hall Playground?

Peck Slip School principal lobbies for cleaner, healthier recess in historic park

BY CARL GLASSMAN

Peck Slip is a new school inheriting a messy problem.

The issue is the mostly dirt field in the northeast portion of City Hall Park that serves as the playground for the school, which opened last month in temporary quarters at Tweed Courthouse.

Not that the school’s 46 kindergartners, who eagerly play on the sandy surface, pay it any mind. Outdoor recess among trees, squirrels, sticks and dirt is a luxury in the city. But Principal Maggie Siena says there’s a downside to this bit of nature and it calls for a solution: artificial turf.

“We’re enjoying the results of a soak so it’s not so dusty today,” the principal told a visitor as she watched kids scamper about the grassless patch of park.

“But [usually] when children are running across here you’d see dust kicked up and it’s not great to breathe in clouds of dust.

It gets in your eyes, it is really dirty, and if it rains in the morning then it’s mud.

So we’re tracking it into the building.”

Artificial turf, she said, would provide 10 years of good use. “It would be cleaner for the kids and for the building.

It’s just healthier generally and we wouldn’t be dealing with the dust and the mud.”

The area has been resodded at least three times in the six years that various new schools have occupied classrooms on the first floor of Tweed.

“We’ve seeded it and sodded it over the years and we’re going to have to do that again,” Bill Castro, the Parks Department's Manhattan Commissioner, told Community Board 1’s Seaport/Civic Center Committee last month.

Castro said children would have to stay off the grounds for a month this year and again in late May to let the compacted soil aerate and the two applications of sod, at a cost of about $25,000, to knit.

Siena, who attended the meeting, said she was glad the city wants to improve the space but was dismayed that

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Above: Peck Slip kindergartners play next to Tweed Courthouse. Far left: Parks Manhattan Commissioner Bill Castro speaks at CB1 meeting. Left: Principal Maggie Siena.

students would lose the outdoor play.

To the suggestion by community board members as well as the principal that artificial turf could be the solution, Castro said there are obstacles. At an estimated cost of $100,000 it may be too expensive, and it would not be appropriate in the historic park. He also referred to “what lies underneath that we don’t want to disturb.” That is, the sensitive issue that the area is a burial ground.

“I’m not saying no, but for the immediate future it’s not feasible,” he said.

Nancy Harris, the principal of the Spruce Street School, which spent its first two years in Tweed, said the sod that was installed when she was there lasted about one calendar year and was “gorgeous” in the spring but not after children’s feet wore it down.

“It obviously lends itself to mud when it’s wet and when it’s dry it’s a lit-

tle bit like a dust bowl situation. Dust flies up and the kids cough.” She said she was told artificial turf was not feasible because of the park’s landmark status.

A request for comment from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission was returned by the Parks Department.

“We generally don’t install turf at historic parks but we will be installing new sod soon,” Parks spokesman Philip Abramson wrote in an email.

Later, Siena said she was encouraged by a meeting with Namshik Yoon, Parks chief of operations, who she said told her that artificial turf remains a possibility.

“They really want to work with us to find a long-term solution,” she said.

The school will stay at Tweed until it opens in its own building in 2015 (see page 30). Siena said that gives her more time than previous principals had to lobby for funding for the turf.

“This will be my project for three years,” she said, “and hopefully it will get done.”

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Standing before CB1’s Tribeca Committee, Matt Abramcyk pleads in vain for approval of a change to his Smith & Mills liquor license so he can serve alcohol to the additional eight seats.

Owner Rebuffed on Outdoor Liquor Citing outdoor alcohol service, CB1 may move to end seating at two Tribeca venues

BY CARL GLASSMAN

Matt Abramcyk, co-owner of four bar-restaurants in Tribeca, got more than he bargained for when he went before Community Board 1 last month. What began as a routine request to alter two liquor licenses ended with the board threatening to end outdoor seating at the two establishments.

Abramcyk’s tussle with the board began in March, when he applied for sidewalk cafe licenses for Smith & Mills, 71 North Moore St., and Tiny’s, 135 West Broadway. CB1’s Tribeca Committee gave its advisory approval for Tiny’s but, despite the owner’s pleas, rejected the 400-square-foot Smith & Mills, with its proposed four tables and eight chairs.

The board has a policy: No sidewalk seating on “side streets.”

The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs granted both licenses anyway— but Abramcyk and the Tribeca Committee were destined to meet again, this time over a required approval to amend his liquor license so that he could serve alcohol to the outdoor customers (up to eight for each of the establishments).

In a rancorous exchange with the committee last month, Abramcyk argued that he needed the seating at Smith & Mills to survive the impact of street work on North Moore. Months of scaffolding had also hurt his business, he said.

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Smith & Mills, where CB1 opposes the serving of alcohol at these four outdoor tables.

“Since I got the sidewalk café license I could make money. Nobody’s bothered by it that I’ve spoken with,” he said.

Abramcyk claimed unfair treatment, citing the outdoor seats across the street at Locanda Verde and next door at Ivy’s.

“I understand. You want to stand on precedent. I can’t do anything about it,” he told the committee. “I’m just telling you in this case there’s a sidewalk café right next door to me.” (Both of these restaurants are on corners, with seating wrapping around to the side street, for which CB1 usually makes an exception.)

“We have some principled concerns that have been applied to dozens of cases,” committee member Mark Costello told Abramcyk. “And it’s not something

that’s made out of thin air. It’s a response from what we hear from our neighbors.”

Only committee member Adam Malitz called for a reconsideration of the board’s blanket rejection of all applications for sidewalk cafes on side streets.

“I really think we need to discuss this policy on a merit basis,” he said.

(The same issue arose in June when the committee infuriated Luigi Iasilli over its denial of two outdoor tables for his bar/restaurant Max on Duane Street.)

Abramcyk left the meeting visibly angry at the committee’s vote against his request for Smith & Mills.

And then it only got worse for him.

At the full board meeting, where the committee’s decision needed to be rati-

fied, committee member Roger Byrom stood to make an announcement.

“I passed Tiny’s tonight and there were four tables and eight seats and they were serving liquor,” he said.

The assertion that alcohol was being served before the license had been amended set the board off. They reversed their prior decision that would have allowed Tiny’s to serve alcohol outside and now voted against outdoor alcohol service at both restaurants. Michael Levine, the board’s director of planning and land use, suggested that Councilwoman Margaret Chin, through the City Council, could take away his outdoor seating licenses.

“With all these outdoor cafes it’s a privilege and not a right, and we look for restaurant and bar owners to respect that privilege,” Byrom later told the Trib.

“Step one in being a good neighbor is to follow the law.”

Chin’s spokeswoman, Kelly Magee, said in an email that her office is looking into any history of complaints or violations involving Abramcyk’s restaurants.

“If an operator consistently violates their sidewalk cafe license, it is likely that the City Council member will call the operator in for a hearing and potentially not renew their permit to operate,” she said.

The Council does not have the power to revoke a license, she said, only to block its renewal.

Abramcyk did not attend the full board meeting and learned of its decision in a call from the Trib.

“Unbelievable,” he said, audibly stunned, and declined further comment.

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From left: Abraham De Peyster, mayor of New York from 1691 to 1694, is credited with promoting the use of public money to aid the poor; De Peyster’s statue in Bowling Green, photographed about 1940; and in its most recent public home, Hanover Square.

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New Home for an Old City Mayor City looks to relocate homeless 17th-century statue of mayor to park in Civic Center

BY JESSICA TERRELL Homeless and unwanted, a 355-yearold former mayor of New York City is finally returning to a place of distinction.

Rising 15 feet atop his pedestal, the bronze statue of Abraham De Peyster, Dutch-born mayor of New York City during the late 1600s, has been bounced from park to park over the years and languished in storage since 2004. Now, it appears, he has found a home.

“We’ve looked at about 30 locations for Mr. De Peyster over the past dozen years or so and for whatever reason every one has been eliminated because of location or interference with utilities,” George Bloomer, a Parks Department design supervisor, told Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee last month.

The proposed new location is in the northwest section of Thomas Paine Park, at Worth and Lafayette streets.

CB1 voted unanimously in favor of the location, though given De Peyster’s history, some wondered how long he would stay. “This poor guy has been evicted from [so many] places,” said board member John Fratta.

The move was scheduled to be considered by the city’s Art Commission on Oct. 1.

De Peyster was a man generous with both his money and his land. He pushed for the city to care for its paupers and donated space for a new city hall on Wall Street, the site of Federal Hall. In addition to serving as mayor, he was also a city comptroller, alderman and judge.

“Quite aside from any family pride, I think it’s just a good idea to get it back on view,” William Ambler, an art historian and direct descendent of De Peyster, told the Trib in a phone interview. “He is most famous for being mayor but he was also the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in what was then the colony of New York. So putting him in front of the courthouse is also an appropriate spot.

A photo rendering of the statue in its proposed new location, on the north end of Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square. Community Board 1 endorsed the new location for the statue, which has been in storage for eight years.

Thomas Paine Friends, Inc., said it would prefer to see a statue of Paine in the park because it is named after him.

And he did live on Pearl, then Queen Street, so it’s nearby there as well.”

Commissioned in the late 1800s by one of De Peyster’s great-great-greatgrandsons, the seated solemn figure was created by the sculptor George Edwin Bissell. But no sooner had work begun on a foundation for the statue in Battery Park than it became the target of criticism and the city had to look for a new location.

“The sentiment which promotes the erection of the statue to Abraham De Peyster is altogether commendable,” the New York Times wrote in spring of 1895. “But Battery Park is not the place for the effigy. There is no room for it. We have gone too far in the park statuary already.”

Over yet other objections, the statue went to Bowling Green in 1896. (“Bowling Green is such a historic spot,” the president of the National Sculpture Society told the Times, “that the question naturally arises why it is not reserved for some artistic group, rather than merely a portrait statue.”)

But after only a short time in

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Bowling Green, De Peyster was donated to Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. (According to the school’s website, it was a controversy over the scale and location of the statue that forced the move.) A slightly smaller replica was fabricated and placed back in the park. There it stayed for 76 years. But in 1972, Bowling Green underwent a major renovation and it was decided that De Peyster had to go.

Next stop: Hanover Square. Atop a new pedestal, he stood there until 2004, when the Parks Department turned the site into the British Memorial Garden.

This time, he had no place to go but storage. But Jonathan Kuhn, the Parks Department’s director of Landmarks and Relics, was determined to find him a home.

One of the sites he selected was Tribeca’s Bogardus Garden, at Reade and Hudson streets. The community group that oversees the planted triangle said no.

“It’s the James Bogardus Garden and having another person in there is confusing,” said Victoria Weil, president of Friends of Bogardus Garden. “We have a

vision for the future of the space and a large sculpture of an early mayor is not part of that vision.”

It could be said that similar confusion may lie ahead when De Peyster resides in a park named for a different historical figure, Thomas Paine.

“Our view would be that the city ought to put a statue of Thomas Paine in Thomas Paine Park,” said Martha Spiegelman, treasurer of Thomas Paine Friends, Inc., a group that worked with the Parks Department to have a plaque about Thomas Paine placed in the park in 2009.

A statue of someone other than Paine, Spiegelman said, may diminish the park’s identification with the man it honors. But De Peyster descendant William Ambler defends the decision, partly for its recognition of the Dutch, who established the city as a center of commerce and, for its time, a place of tolerance.

“It’s appropriate to have at least one or two of these old Dutch boys commemorated somewhere,” he said.

—Additional reporting by Carl Glassman

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Pier 40 Is Given Five Years to Live Hudson River Park Trust study details plan for closing down the structure in phases

BY JESSICA TERRELL The phased shutdown of Hudson River Park’s popular but crumbling Pier 40 has begun.

In a newly completed study on the cost of repairing the mixed-use pier at Houston Street, the Hudson River Park Trust found it could afford to fix only the bare essentials for “life and safety” over the next five years. That is how long the pilings that support the structure are expected to last before they need to be overhauled, at a cost well beyond what the Trust can afford.

“Essentially we will be operating Pier 40 in a liquidation mode from here forward,” Trust president Madelyn Wils told her board last month. “Areas not deemed to be essential will be shut down,” she later added.

Pier 40, which serves as playing fields for Lower Manhattan leagues and a parking lot for many Downtown residents, was once meant to make money to help run the rest of Hudson River Park.

But with some $30 million needed in roof repairs and $90 million to stabilize the weathered pilings, the Trust can afford to do little more than keep the building on temporary life support, Wils said.

“After that, the cost of keeping this open will be far beyond anything we can possibly do,” she told the board, adding, “The best we can do is come up with a five-year plan.”

The first area to close will probably be a southwest portion of the roof—as early as next year. Other rooftop parking areas, and perhaps office space below, could follow. Wils said the Trust believes it can maintain the athletic field and current 1,700 parking spaces for the duration of the five years.

But the board’s chair, Diana Taylor, questioned whether it makes sense to put money into the pier if the Trust’s proposed legislation, allowing a variety of commercial uses, including residential, fails to pass.

“If we’re shot down I say we don’t

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Above: The Pier 40 playing field is partly ringed with parking, a major source of revenue for Hudson River Park. Right: Trust president Madelyn Wils presents the “managed” shutdown plan for the pier at last month’s HRPT board meeting.

put in another dime,” she said, “because we’re not going to get it back.”

Changes to the Hudson River Park Act were introduced during the last legislative session, but were not acted on.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, whose support is crucial to the amendments, is vehemently against residential buildings on the pier, saying the fields would become staging areas for construction and playing time would be curtailed if residential buildings occupy part of the site.

“Their approach up to now has been that residential is a silver bullet, and it’s an unacceptable approach,” Glick said.

“It’s not the best use or the best thing for the pier.”

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said there will be no legislation until he has agreement among all the Assembly members who represent the park, which along with Glick includes Richard Gott-

fried, a strong proponent of the amended park act. “When we get a consensus from them we’ll move a bill,” he told the Trib. “Plain and simple.”

For now the Trust is only making repairs deemed essential for safety.

Moving forward, it plans to patch or shore up the roof instead of replacing it, and close off other areas once they are deemed unstable. In total, the Trust expects to spend about $14 million over the next five years to maintain its $25 million of income from the parking.

Wils told the board that the Trust recently had to shut down the ground floor bathrooms that serve the ball fields and replace them with porta-potties after discovering that the plumbing system was in need of substantial repair.

“It’s a grim picture,” said board member Franz Leichter, a former state senator and co-sponsor of the Hudson River Park Act. Following Wils’s presentation, Taylor echoed the sentiment. “Thank you for an excellent report,” she said. “I’m ready for a drink.”

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Work Goes On to Replace All of Walkways on Pier 25

BY JESSICA TERRELL from appearing—contractors must reLast month, less than two years after place all the material, several feet of it in the new, $40-million Pier 25 reopened to some places, before pavers are reinthe public, workers already began a stalled. The cost of the repairs is being major repair job—digging up and replac- absorbed by the contractors who did the ing all the pavers on original work, Wils the pier, as well as said. much of the materiThe disruption al beneath the pink to the pier has been and grey squares. a problem for the The work, Lilac, the historic which has first lighthouse tender closed off a large berthed on the section of the pier’s north side of the north side, will be pier. completed in the The Trust has “next couple of arranged for the months,” according Lilac to be accessito Hudson River ble for three Park Trust presiplanned events in dent Madelyn Wils, October, including who said the work Open House New will be done in York on Oct. 6 and stages and without 7. But the boat othclosing off the erwise remains off entire pier. limits to the public According to Work to replace the pavers on Pier 25 bethrough October, gan on the pier’s north side. the Trust, the probthe final month of lem occurred as a result of damaged its season. An exhibit of World War II material that prevented proper drainage. photographs, planned to open this The water turned to ice with the first month, was cancelled. But it may be the freeze, then contracted when it became first show in the spring, said Mary warm, causing the cracking.

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Dispute Behind Stalled BPC Center Authority admits to contract talks as future of community center remains in question

BY JESSICA TERRELL

First it was a problem with boiler inspections. Then it was fire safety permits and sprinkler drawings and plumbing sign-offs.

For nearly a year the Battery Park City Authority told increasingly frustrated residents that the repeated delays in opening its new $55-million community center were largely bureaucratic. Then last month, the BPCA finally confirmed what it had maintained was a community rumor: The Authority was indeed engaged in a contract dispute with the community center’s intended operator, Asphalt Green.

“We have encountered difficulties in preparing to implement our contract with Asphalt Green, primarily because of the differing requirements for transparency and community participation BPCA must comply with in spending public money, as compared to a private organization,” recently appointed BPCA chairman Dennis Mehiel said in a statement on Sept. 12. “We are actively pursuing a solution that will allow the Center to open under terms and conditions that protect the assets we are charged with administering.”

The Authority has been working with litigator Randy Mastro to see how the contract might be amended, Mehiel said in the statement, which was released just hours after Authority president Gayle Horwitz tendered her resignation.

Neither Asphalt Green’s spokeswoman nor its executive director responded to multiple requests for comment, and both the Authority and Asphalt Green have declined to publicly reveal the substance of the dispute.

Under the terms of the management contract, negotiated in 2009 by its previous administration, the Authority would pay for the center’s construction, equipment and furnishings, and all utilities and repairs as well as its annual operating budget, management fees and a portion of “corporate overhead expenses.” Any profit would be split between the Authority and Asphalt Green 60-40. But

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Top: Exercise equipment stands unused in the completed Battery Park City community center. Above: Authority chair Dennis Mehiel and now-former president Gayle Horwitz.

the Authority could also face steep losses. The contract estimates a first-year deficit of $1.2 million.

Former board member Charles Urstadt, who cast the sole vote against awarding the contract to Asphalt Green, said the Authority would have been better off leasing the space to a commercial gym that would have brought in rental income for the state agency.

Money spent by the Authority subsidizing a community center detracts from the Authority’s original purpose of financing affordable housing across the city, said Urstadt, who was the Authority’s founding chairman.

“You’re simply taking money out of the hands and lives of people who need housing elsewhere in the city and can’t afford it,” he said, “and putting it in the hands of, first, the people who run Asphalt Green and, secondly, the people who use the facilities who may or may not live in Battery Park City.”

According to the 2009 management agreement obtained by the Trib, delays in opening the center may be costing the Authority, too. According to the contract, once the pre-opening period extended past June, Asphalt Green can bill the Authority for management fees at the rate of $80 an hour.

The Authority has not responded to a request from the Trib to see those invoices or to be told whether they exist.

“Somebody has got to sit down and treat this as a business investment and say, ‘How much is the Authority losing because of this contract?’” Urstadt said.

“And then you’ve got to say, ‘What are the legalities of the contract? Can the Authority get out from under it?’ That’s a lot of homework that needs to be done.”

Not so, says James Cavanaugh, the former Authority president who oversaw the contract negotiations. He said too much has been made of projected losses at the community center.

“There ought not to be losses. This whole process was designed to provide an operating surplus,” Cavanaugh said, adding that he still believes that Asphalt Green will turn a profit within a few years of opening, while meeting the community needs.

“You look at what someone has done and it’s a pretty good indicator of what someone will do,” Cavanaugh said of the Upper East Side sports and fitness center. “They are there to provide cultural betterment, fitness, community improvement. They are not really there to serve shareholders because they don’t have any.”

Whatever the sources of the dispute, rescinding a contract is difficult, said James J. Terry, a government contract lawyer and partner at Zetlin & De Chiara LLP. (Terry did not review the Asphalt Green contract and was not commenting on it specifically.)

Terry said it takes a “mutual mistake or a material misrepresentation by one of the parties” to cancel a contract. It also might be possible if circumstances have changed so dramatically that it is not possible or practical to carry out the contract. “Those are tough standards to meet,” he said.

In the meantime, residents, some who signed up for memberships as early as last fall, remain dismayed.

“The [residents] are the people who are being hurt by this,” said Erica Teresko, a mother of two who believes the center would have had a better chance of making a profit for the Authority if it had not been delayed so long. “[The Authority] is setting them up for failure.”

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Capture of Rape Suspect Recalled by Park Officers

BY CARL GLASSMAN Days after the rape of a 21-year-old woman in Hudson River Park near Harrison Street, Parks Enforcement Patrol officers gave their own account of how they helped capture the paroled suspect Sept. 23 in the normally tranquil park.

Officers Daniel Murphy and Luis Cabezas said they had just come on duty in the park around 5 a.m. when the victim came running toward them almost immediately after the attack, screaming that she had been raped.

“She ran towards us completely naked,” Murphy told the Trib following a press conference near the site of the attack. “My partner [Cabezas] saw the suspect and took off after him. I put her in the back seat, covered her with a blanket and took off.”

“She was distraught, very distraught,” he said.

Murphy said the suspect, Jonathan Stewart, 25, was shirtless and silent when he was cornered about a block away, lying down in the West Street median at North Moore Street.

“NYPD got him but we were in pursuit of him and we cornered him onto the median,” Murphy said. “He had nowhere to go.”

Murphy said only about three minutes elapsed between the attack and the suspect’s capture.

“You were here when we really need-

ed you,” said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who stood with the officers at a news conference in the park.

“And thank God for that.”

Madelyn Wils, president of Hudson River Park Trust, said this was the first incident of violent crime in the park.

“We’re very grateful that we have our PEP officers here,” said Wils, who called Hudson River Park one of the best protected in the city. “The park opens at 6 a.m. and yet we do have our officers here all day and all night long and it was because of that the victim was taken care of right away and the perpetrator was apprehended very quickly.”

Police say the victim was sitting on a park bench when Stewart sat down beside her and engaged her in conversation. Stewart then hit the woman in the face, tried to strangle her and then dragged her into the bushes and sexually assaulted her, according to police.

Stewart is a registered sex offender who was released from prison in July for a parole violation. He had served five years for sexual assault in 2004.

After his arrest, Stewart was taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation and stayed there for his video arraignment on Sept. 26 while recovering from a suicide attempt. He is charged with first degree rape and first degree sexual misconduct.

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Sept. 1...3:50 a.m.

A man was attacked by a group of men who punched his face repeatedly and stole his iPhone and $250. He was taken to the hospital with injuries.

Sept. 15...5:15 p.m.

An Occupy Wall Street protester attempted to punch an officer clearing the sidewalk. He then resisted arrest.

FULTON & PEARL Sept. 1...noon A thief stole a wallet from a woman’s stroller and used her credit card to purchase sunglasses.

Sept. 15...7:14 p.m.

Also during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration, police arrested a 42-year old man who assaulted a police officer, throwing him to the ground and punching him.

35 MURRAY Sept. 12...7:30 p.m.

Thieves snatched a purse hanging off the back of a diner’s chair. It contained an iPhone and $100.

FRONT & WALL Sept. 14...11:50 p.m.

A tourist from Mexico who was staying at a nearby hostel was approached from behind by two men who brandished a handgun and demanded his belongings.

The tourist handed over his wallet, which contained a driver’s license and several credit cards.

111 SOUTH Sept. 14...11:55 p.m.

Police arrested a 23-year-old woman and two 24-year-old men for assault. The victim, 22, was standing outside the bar smoking when the woman approached and asked him for a cigarette. When he said no, the woman punched him and ripped off his earring. Two men then joined in the fray, kicking and punching him.

11 PARK PLACE Sept. 15...2:30 a.m.

What started out as a verbal argument between two strangers turned into a robbery, when one of the women ripped a gold necklace valued at $600 off the other and threw it on the ground. The woman who snatched the necklace told a friend to pick it up, and the two ran off together.

300 ALBANY Sept. 15...2 p.m.

A thief stole a 2007 Honda motorcycle that had been parked without a lock or alarm.

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GOUVERNEUR & SOUTH Sept. 16...7 p.m.

A woman was talking on her cell phone when a man came up from behind her and snatched it.

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During Occupy Wall Street, police arrested a protester who struck three officers, flailing his arms and legs while being subdued.

30 NEW Sept. 19...1 p.m.

A customer placed her wallet on the counter and left without it. By the time she realized her mistake, the wallet had been stolen.

89 SOUTH Sept. 20...9:49 a.m.

Police arrested one suspected thief and searched unsuccessfully for a second, after two young men attacked a 69year-old man, putting him in a hold and stealing his camera.

217 BROADWAY Sept. 20...2 p.m.

A thief removed a lock from a gym locker and took a man’s wallet.

BROAD & BEAVER Sept. 21...9:15 a.m.

Police arrested a 73-year-old man whom witnesses observed breaking into a car and stealing a $300 bag, $575 in cash, $400 eyeglasses and an iPod.

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Sept. 21...4:30 p.m.

A woman was bumped on the street by a pickpocket who stole her wallet, which contained $600.

Sept. 15...4 p.m.

A thief broke the rear window of a car in a garage, and took an iPad, an iPod and two digital cameras.

Sept. 22...12:47 a.m.

Two thieves jostled a woman and stole her iPhone.

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Tribeca Loft Tour

Friends of Duane Park will be hosting the 13th annual Tribeca loft tour on Sunday, Oct. 14, from 1 to 5 p.m.

Advance tickets for the self-guided tour are available online for $60 or can be purchased for $65 (subject to availability) starting at 12:30 p.m. on the day of the tour in Duane Park, at Hudson and Duane streets. Proceeds from sales go to the upkeep and improvement of the park.

Tickets at duanepark.org.

Halloween Help Wanted

The Friends of Washington Market Park are seeking volunteers for their annual Halloween parade and party, which will take place on Sunday, Oct. 28. Volunteers will be needed at the park from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. for event setup, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. for the event, and from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. for cleanup. Volunteer groups are welcome.

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The African Burial Ground, at 290 Broadway, will be hosting numerous free activities for adults and young people from Tuesday, Oct. 2 to Sunday, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to mid-afternoon. Events include talks on African musical traditions and culture, dance performances, tours of the outdoor memorial, a choral performance, documentary film screenings, African drumming and more. For a detailed schedule and more events go to nps.gov/afbg.

Etty’s Diaries

“Etty,” a one-woman performance about Esther “Etty” Hillesum, a young Dutch Jewish woman who died at Auschwitz in 1943, will be performed by Susan Stein at the Anne Frank Center at 44 Park Pl. The play, adapted from Hillesum’s letters and diaries written during the Nazi occupation, will be shown on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. Tickets; $12, $8 students and seniors. Reservations at annefrank.com.

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Bogardus Garden Fest

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Free Plants and More

The Downtown Alliance is sponsoring two events this month as part of its “Green Around Downtown” program.

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to noon, the Alliance is giving away 4,000 geraniums during its “Adopt-A-Geranium” day. The “Fall Community Planting” is on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are invited to help plant thousands of tulip bulbs that will bloom next spring. There will also be complimentary snacks and family activities. Both events are at Bowling Green Park at Broadway and Whitehall Street. DowntownNY.com.

Insider Look at Bailout

Neil Barofsky, who was in charge of protecting against abuse and fraud in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a $700-million program to prop up the nation’s banks after the 2008 financial crisis, will speak about his newly published book, “Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street,” at a talk at the Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A, book signing and reception. Tickets, which may be purchased in advance, are $15 at moaf.org.

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The role of embedded journalists, the risks they face, and the ethical implications of their presence as civilians in military units will be explored in a discussion at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, on Sunday, Oct. 14, at 2:30 p.m. The panel will include Judith Matloff of the Columbia Journalism School; Santiago Lyon, director of photography, Associated Press; Quil Lawrence of NPR; and Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole. Tickets can be purchased at mjhnyc.org or at the museum. $10, $7 students/seniors.

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1) Stabilization efforts in FiDi. Update by Paul Newell, Save FiDi Alliance 2) Independence Plaza North. Update by Diane Lapson, President, IPN Tenants Association 3) Unit ownership and delegation of tasks to complete newest guide. Discussion 4) Lower Manhattan Senior Business Plan.

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1) WTC health update by Terry Miles of the WTC Environmental Health Center, NYC Health and Hospitals Corp., and Dr. Dori Reissman of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (invited) 2) School overcrowding. Semi-annual update

by Professor Eric Greenleaf 3) Permit process for ball fields. Update by Mark Costello, CB 1 Board Member

10/2 SEAPORT/CIVIC CENTER 6 PM 1) South Street Seaport Museum’s future. Discussion with Susan Henshaw Jones, President.

2) Community facilities on the east side of CB1. Report by Diana Switaj, CB1 Urban Fellow 3) Pier 17 Update. Discussion The following notices for applications have been received: 229 Front St., application for renewal of liquor license for K229 87 Baxter St., application for renewal of wine and beer license for Nha Trang

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1) 56 Leonard St. project. Introduction by Lend Lease US Construction Co. 2) Sidewalk cafe regulations. Presentation by City Council staff 3) 2 Sixth Ave., application for alteration of liquor license for Tribeca Grand Hotel.

Resolution 4) 165 Church St., application for wine and beer license for Sole Di Capri. Resolution 5) 33 Leonard St., application for renewal of sidewalk license for Square Diner. Resolution 6) Newsstand application for the SW corner West Broadway and Leonard. Resolution The following notices for applications have been received: 159 Duane St., renewal of liquor license for Weatherup 130 Franklin St., renewal of wine and beer license for Pecan 90 Chambers St., renewal of liquor license for Jerry’s Cafe

10/11 LANDMARKS, SEAPORT/CIVIC CENTER, PLANNING & WATERFRONT 6 PM

1) MTA Fulton Street Transit Center. Update by Uday Durg, program executive for Lower Manhattan projects 2) Application for newsstand at Wall Street and Pearl, SE corner. Resolution 3) 79 Pearl St. a/k/a 46 Stone St., application for restaurant liquor license for Smoke House 4) 123 Washington St. W Hotel Plaza Café.

Discussion 5) New York Stock Exchange security plan on Broad Street and rotating bollards. Update The following notices for applications have been received: 54 Pearl St., renewal of restaurant liquor license for Fraunces Tavern 76 Pearl St., renewal of restaurant wine and beer license for Excel Food Corp.

104 John St., renewal of liquor license for Bonchon Chicken 79 Pearl St., renewal of liquor license for Smoke House

1) Pier 17, application for new signage.

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10/11 LANDMARKS COMMITTEE 6:30 PM 1) 272 Water St., application for bulkhead and window replacement. Resolution 2) 2 North Moore St., application for alteration of existing rooftop pergola. Resolution

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On Moore Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Ken Brown stops to photograph one of the many street murals in the neighborhood. Each day he rides his bike to a graphicsrich destination in the city, then takes the subway home.

MAN STREET

Umbrella Woman, South Street Seaport

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Tribeca artist Ken Brown has turned his lifelong passion for quirky graphics into a daily prowling amid the “visual vitality” of the city.

BY CARL GLASSMAN iding his bike down a Bushwick backstreet, Ken Brown stopped beside a half-block-long stretch of wall, masterfully covered with graffiti. First he photographed a colorful slice of pizza riding a bicycle, then leaned in close to document just one small detail, a rabbit.

“I’ve always found rabbit images kind of fun,” he said, taking a few more snaps. “I have a whole file on animals in street art.”

Animals, old storefronts, hand-painted signs, words on walls, stenciled graffiti, tourists photographing tourists in front of graffiti. These are just a few of the 40 files of street photos into which are digitally tucked more than 60,000 pictures. They are the products of years of nearly daily forays by bike into the farthest reaches of the city.

“I have hungry eyes,” he said. “They like to be fed.”

Most often his pictures incorporate the fleeting treasures of street art, or the fast-disappearing graphics of hand-painted signs, or some odd juxtaposition of person and graphic. “I see myself as artist and archivist,” he

said. “I wear both hats.”

“When I record it,” he added, “I’m hoping in some way to further its life and celebrate it. What I really do is celebrate the visual vitality of New York City.”

Brown, 68, calls himself a “filmmaker/photographer/cartoonist/designer,” which only partially describes the eclectic scope of his creative life.

In the early 1970s, he was a filmmaker and film teacher in Boston who also liked to draw. He began selling his cartoon graphics on postcards in 1975 and they were a hit.

Then he expanded: coffee mugs, T-shirts, rubber stamps, calendars, temporary tattoos, refrigerator magnets, hats were all sold bearing his creations.

With success came the purchase in 1985 of a fourth-floor former cheese warehouse on Harrison Street, where he moved with his wife, the animator Lisa Crafts.

“Lisa once described my business as a lemonade stand that got out of control,” he said with pride.

The loft is a testament to the kind of visual delight that sparked his success as a maker

Skateboarder with Woody, Bushwick

CARL GLASSMAN

Brown in the Harrison Street apartment where he has lived with his wife, Lisa Crafts, since 1985 and where they raised their daughter, Jemma, in a funhouse of ephemera from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. He says he has run out of room to collect any more pieces. “I’ve basically curtailed my tchotchke accumulation to almost zero,” he says.

of pop fun. No surface is lacking kitschy ephemera, mostly small figures from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s: Humpty Dumpties and sumo wrestlers, anthropomorphic salt and pepper shakers and miniature Shriners.

“My daughter, Jemma, used to be embarrassed by my bunny collection,” he said.

Showing a visitor around the loft, Brown paused at a collection of vintage Christmas figurines.

“These are plastic snowmen and Santa Clauses that I actually could justify because I used them for wrapping paper designs.”

Some of the “oddabilia,” as Brown calls it, also had starring roles on “Sesame Street” during the 12 years that he and crafts created animated segments for the show.

While the cultural and commercial changes brought by the Internet slowed the demand for his quirky style of graphics, it did nothing to diminish his output of visual surprises.

Seven years ago, with more time on his hands and “just to keep the synapses snapping,” he began creating a political cartoon, a collage or other graphic that he emailed them to family and friends.

PHOTOS BY KEN BROWN

Over time Brown turned to photography, and for the past three years he’s been “publishing” his weekly “PixPop” photos to an email list that has grown to nearly a thousand.

Each week he culls 300 to 400 images from recent bike trips to Williamsburg or Harlem or Coney Island—anywhere that could yield the assorted riches of street art that he is committed to preserving.

“The not so nice part of street art is that it’s ephemeral,” he said. “And the nice part is that it changes all the time.”

Even along the familiar paths of Bushwick recently, there were freshly painted possibilities that kept the artist excited anew.

“I see some stuff I haven’t seen before,” he announced suddenly. “I think I’ll take a left here.” Brown stopped his bike in front of the graffitied aluminum facade of a warehouse and aimed his camera at a stubbly cartoon face, its pupilless eyes staring back at him.

“I have a file of about 1,500 heads,” he said gleefully. “I have to get this!”

See more from Ken Brown at kenbrownpixpop.blogspot.com.

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On Moore Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Ken Brown stops to photograph one of the many street murals in the neighborhood. Each day he rides his bike to a graphicsrich destination in the city, then takes the subway home.

MAN STREET

Umbrella Woman, South Street Seaport

CARL GLASSMAN

ON THE

R

Shipping Department, Bushwick

Tribeca artist Ken Brown has turned his lifelong passion for quirky graphics into a daily prowling amid the “visual vitality” of the city.

BY CARL GLASSMAN iding his bike down a Bushwick backstreet, Ken Brown stopped beside a half-block-long stretch of wall, masterfully covered with graffiti. First he photographed a colorful slice of pizza riding a bicycle, then leaned in close to document just one small detail, a rabbit.

“I’ve always found rabbit images kind of fun,” he said, taking a few more snaps. “I have a whole file on animals in street art.”

Animals, old storefronts, hand-painted signs, words on walls, stenciled graffiti, tourists photographing tourists in front of graffiti. These are just a few of the 40 files of street photos into which are digitally tucked more than 60,000 pictures. They are the products of years of nearly daily forays by bike into the farthest reaches of the city.

“I have hungry eyes,” he said. “They like to be fed.”

Most often his pictures incorporate the fleeting treasures of street art, or the fast-disappearing graphics of hand-painted signs, or some odd juxtaposition of person and graphic. “I see myself as artist and archivist,” he

said. “I wear both hats.”

“When I record it,” he added, “I’m hoping in some way to further its life and celebrate it. What I really do is celebrate the visual vitality of New York City.”

Brown, 68, calls himself a “filmmaker/photographer/cartoonist/designer,” which only partially describes the eclectic scope of his creative life.

In the early 1970s, he was a filmmaker and film teacher in Boston who also liked to draw. He began selling his cartoon graphics on postcards in 1975 and they were a hit.

Then he expanded: coffee mugs, T-shirts, rubber stamps, calendars, temporary tattoos, refrigerator magnets, hats were all sold bearing his creations.

With success came the purchase in 1985 of a fourth-floor former cheese warehouse on Harrison Street, where he moved with his wife, the animator Lisa Crafts.

“Lisa once described my business as a lemonade stand that got out of control,” he said with pride.

The loft is a testament to the kind of visual delight that sparked his success as a maker

Skateboarder with Woody, Bushwick

CARL GLASSMAN

Brown in the Harrison Street apartment where he has lived with his wife, Lisa Crafts, since 1985 and where they raised their daughter, Jemma, in a funhouse of ephemera from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. He says he has run out of room to collect any more pieces. “I’ve basically curtailed my tchotchke accumulation to almost zero,” he says.

of pop fun. No surface is lacking kitschy ephemera, mostly small figures from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s: Humpty Dumpties and sumo wrestlers, anthropomorphic salt and pepper shakers and miniature Shriners.

“My daughter, Jemma, used to be embarrassed by my bunny collection,” he said.

Showing a visitor around the loft, Brown paused at a collection of vintage Christmas figurines.

“These are plastic snowmen and Santa Clauses that I actually could justify because I used them for wrapping paper designs.”

Some of the “oddabilia,” as Brown calls it, also had starring roles on “Sesame Street” during the 12 years that he and crafts created animated segments for the show.

While the cultural and commercial changes brought by the Internet slowed the demand for his quirky style of graphics, it did nothing to diminish his output of visual surprises.

Seven years ago, with more time on his hands and “just to keep the synapses snapping,” he began creating a political cartoon, a collage or other graphic that he emailed them to family and friends.

PHOTOS BY KEN BROWN

Over time Brown turned to photography, and for the past three years he’s been “publishing” his weekly “PixPop” photos to an email list that has grown to nearly a thousand.

Each week he culls 300 to 400 images from recent bike trips to Williamsburg or Harlem or Coney Island—anywhere that could yield the assorted riches of street art that he is committed to preserving.

“The not so nice part of street art is that it’s ephemeral,” he said. “And the nice part is that it changes all the time.”

Even along the familiar paths of Bushwick recently, there were freshly painted possibilities that kept the artist excited anew.

“I see some stuff I haven’t seen before,” he announced suddenly. “I think I’ll take a left here.” Brown stopped his bike in front of the graffitied aluminum facade of a warehouse and aimed his camera at a stubbly cartoon face, its pupilless eyes staring back at him.

“I have a file of about 1,500 heads,” he said gleefully. “I have to get this!”

See more from Ken Brown at kenbrownpixpop.blogspot.com.

Frankenghost, Flatbush Avenue

Ivy, Eyes, Red Hook

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It wasn’t for another half-century that I realized again how strong a friendship can be between a person and a dog. Eloise was a mini-Schnauzer owned by friends who lived on Hudson Street. She was 14 pounds of love and attitude who quickly adopted me and my family into her pack.

My wife, who is allergic to animal fur, discovered that the hypoallergenic breed did not affect her.

JIM Entranced STRATTON’S by the tiny personality of our new canine friend, we soon obtained our own miniSchnauzer in 2004. He was a tiny, very affectionate puppy who chose us CITY as much as we CHARRETTE chose him.

We named him Aengus, after the Gaelic god of love.

Aengus and Eloise became reluctant playmates, overseeing their territories as their humans interacted.

And as much as I loved Aengus, Eloise and I remained an item whenever our interspecies paths crossed. She would run the length of a sidewalk if she caught sight of me, and I would do the same for her.

It can be difficult to keep dogs in the city, but doing so helps maintain some stability in a hyperactive metropolitan world.

We see to their needs, they see to our emotional well-being. And there is nothing like spending an hour or two walking the streets with a puppy, or watching the wildness of a dog run, to distract a person from the responsibilities of humdrum life.

As to dog runs, Aengus likes the northern one in Battery Park City, a

great place for smaller dogs that offers a long space ideal for chasing. The Leroy Street run adjacent to Pier 40 is better for nice-day outings, because it takes a long walk along the beautiful riverfront to get there.

Aengus’s favorite had been the run fenced into the city-owned space behind P.S. 234, which now, unfortunately, has become privatized.

While this has caused a stir among some dog owners, there is some justification.

High costs of cleanup and problems with kids invading the space had to be handled, with its leadership deciding that it should be kept locked and its costs passed on to users.

My view is that dog owners should again descend upon the community board, ring up the councilmember, and this time bring along canine picketers.

There is no reason the city can’t provide the pittance needed to support this dog run.

Especially in a time of economic troubles, puppies are an aid to emotional health. We should treat them right.

On a picket line, however, my Aengus might not be a best in show.

Like many of his breed, Aengus is intelligent but quirky. He knows many commands, but evaluates them like a driver approaching a stop sign. Yes, he will stay and sit, but only for as long as he deems necessary. Yes, he will stop barking at a stranger, but only after the tithe of a treat has been paid.

Aengus is very different from the more docile Eloise, his friend and playmate for much too short a time.

Eloise died in 2006, one of the many unreported victims of 9/11. Walked several times a day on pavement made poisonous by the toxic winds, her entire body became riddled by cancer. Eloise died in the arms of her owner, who could not bear to have her tiny friend put down.

Many dogs, smaller of body and lower to the ground than their humans, died horrible, painful deaths in the years that followed 9/11, even as the people in charge were denying that an environmental problem existed.

Nearly every day when we pass Eloise’s former door, Aengus will stop and sniff. He still remembers his friend Eloise, and so do I.

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HUDSON A photo reveals the busy, freight-filled life of a street that time, long ago, erased.

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Right: Hudson Street, about 1910, looking south from Laight Street. The New York Central Railroad’s freight terminal is at left, now the site of the Holland Tunnel rotary. Above: Hudson Street today. At right, 161 and 157 Hudson still remain.

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BY OLIVER E. ALLEN ow would you like it if a freight train came rumbling across your front yard several times a day? You probably would not like it a bit. Yet that was just what confronted anyone living on Hudson Street between Beach and Laight streets a century ago, as shown in this marvelous photo (above right) taken around 1910.

The photograph looks south on Hudson from a point just north of Laight Street, the street onto which some wagons are turning at center left. (In the distance, is the yet-to-be-completed Woolworth Building.) Beyond the turning wagons is the New York Central Rail-

road’s freight terminal, which Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt had erected in 1868, destroying a once-upscale residential neighborhood.

A glance at the photo, indeed, can hardly indicate that this area was once the polite, well-to-do center of what is now Tribeca. The huge, gaunt freight terminal occupied the land that in the 1820s and 1830s had been St. John’s Park, an exclusive retreat to which only nearby residents had access and which was tightly controlled by members of the graceful church on Varick Street, St. John’s Chapel.

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commerce took over. Polite society moved out of the handsome houses surrounding St. John’s Park and gradually the houses themselves were torn down and replaced by commercial structures.

In 1868 the park’s owner, Trinity Church, which for some contorted reason saw no future in it, sold it to Vanderbilt, who put up the massive three-story freight station as the southern terminus of his railroad’s vital line delivering goods to the city.

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Only in the 1930s did the city and the railroad finally decide a change was needed. The tracks were torn up and a new terminus was built at Houston and West streets to handle incoming freight (and named St. John’s Terminal as a remembrance of the old days in Tribeca).

The railroad line was rebuilt as an elevated structure that traversed Chelsea and the West Village; it is today’s High Line, the new delightful park that is so popular.

As for the old St. John’s Park that for so long held the noisy and disagreeable freight building, it is today filled with exit roads from the Holland Tunnel.

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he first show I ever performed was at a funeral.

Yes, it’s true. I was living with my girlfriend’s family and there was a wake at their house for a relative. Her father said to me, “You have to do something because everyone is going to be so sad and it would raise people’s spirits.” I was like, “What? Like, are you serious?” So I just did a bit where I have a coin in a handkerchief and I keep putting it in my pocket and then it reappears in the handkerchief. It’s from a beginner’s magic book I was studying. I couldn’t believe it, the audience went crazy.

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An “assistant” from the audience joins Mario the Magician at a performance last month at Space on White.

It was such a high that I decided this was what I should do with my life. Then I did the same bit at a show at a coffee house a month later and it was the exact opposite. I failed miserably to the point where I left the stage in the middle of the performance and put my stuff in a dumpster. That’s how embarrassed I was.

But I kept practicing and then I met a retired firefighter who did magic tricks for tips at a Chinese restaurant. He said, “You take one half of the room, I’ll take the other.” That was the first time I made money from magic.

Eventually, the girl and I broke up and I came back home with my head down to live with my parents. I didn’t know what to do. I had tried to make a living doing woodwork, making marionettes, music, art and nothing had worked. I was 25, everyone else had grown up, graduated college. But I had a dream one night that I was doing magic for disabled kids and I was glowing and happy. I took that as an omen and I went to college to be a teacher’s aide for disabled kids.

On weekends I did kids’ magic shows through an agency and they took half the money.

Then I met Katie, who’s now my wife, and she saw something in me—a little spark. She said, “We

could develop something here and maybe we could do this full time.”

So I left college and we quit our jobs and we just made cold calls every day for a month. We were freaking out, but the first month we were able to pay our rent by just doing magic. Katie was a master with marketing and she rocked it all out. That was six years ago, and now we just had our first baby and bought our first house. All because of magic. It’s insane. I can’t believe it.

The first year and a half was like walking through thorn bushes. It was so painful.

I made a lot of mistakes. But after I learned all the classics, I started to want to use my own tricks. It’s always risky to try out a new trick. Even now, I’ll spend the whole show thinking about that one trick that I’m trying out for the first time. I don’t want the room to be dead for even one second. I’m hypersensitive to that stuff.

Every second has to be leading somewhere.

To me, magic is an art. It’s not this weird thing where you go buy props and do tricks.

I try to look at children’s performances like a

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Mario Marchese, also known as Mario the Magician, performs his family magic show once a month at Space on White, 81 White St. (mariothemagician.com).

He also teaches magic at afterschool programs. Here, he tells his story to April Koral.

science. What makes a kid laugh?

Kids in general are always being told what to do and how to act and yes and no and what’s right and what’s wrong. In my routines I often have a problem and I try to solve it but it’s the kids who solve it.

They love seeing an adult mess up and be a fool. My sign says “World’s Greatest Magician,” and then all of a sudden my sign falls off the suitcase and I fix it and I’m trying to be serious and say things like, “We have a great show here,” and then the flags break and the flowers fall to the floor. They can’t stop laughing at seeing a grown man who is supposed to have it together and actually has nothing at all together. It really gets them going.

That’s different from adults. Adults want the opposite. They want to be impressed. If I levitated four feet off the floor, an adult would think, “Wow, that’s amazing. I can’t see scientifically how that’s possible.”

But kids couldn’t care less. They want to be entertained. They want to laugh. They want to join in the fun, to come up and help me. When a child comes up in front of a whole group to be my assistant, I can see a little fear in their eyes. They’re always very serious. Then I give them one of my wands and it falls apart in their hands.

And I give them another one, and that one breaks. Or I give them a bell that I ring and when they try to ring it, it doesn’t ring. Then they realize that it’s just all a big game of fun.

I always make sure that at the end of the routine it’s the kid who does the magic and that all the applause goes to them. For a moment, this kid thinks he really has coins coming out of his ears and his nose and that he can really make anything appear. I can see it in their eyes.

They’re thinking, “This is awesome!”

“I can do anything!” And who doesn’t want that?

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It will be another three years before the Peck Slip School’s building opens. But, published here for the first time, School Construction Authority (SCA) officials are showing what the finished structure will look like.

Most notable are the two floors added to the four-story former post office, vacated this year. The top, sixth floor will be an enclosed rooftop playground with metal fabric to keep balls from sailing onto Peck Slip.

A “gymatorium,” combination of gym and auditorium, with stage and removable seats, occupies the fifth floor.

“It’s not necessarily what we would have liked but as you can see we maxed out every floor,” the SCA’s Michael Mirisola told Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s School Task Force last month during a presentation on the school’s layout. The plan for five sections per grade and 712 students precludes room for a separate gym and auditorium, he said.

The school entrance will be on Peck Slip, with lobby, exercise and lunch rooms on the first floor. Offices will be on the second floor, music and library on the fourth and art and science on the fifth. Classrooms will occupy the second through fifth floors.

A chorus of approval from the group followed the presentation. “Nice design,” they said. “It’s a beautiful building.”

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Above: In their lunchroom in Tweed Courthouse, Peck Slip students eat at tables on each side of the huge room. Right: Karl Smith gives a lesson before sending his students off to work at tables placed around the vast classroom. Far right: Students wait to go inside the building after recess.

Like the first students of P.S. 276 and P.S. 397 before them, the 46 children filling two kindergarten classes of the Peck Slip School are getting their start in the palatial first-floor quarters of Tweed Courthouse. “The school and the building are such a part of New York City,” said Paul Lopez, holding the hand of his grinning five-year-old, Maxwell, on the first day of school. “It’s pretty cool.”

A challenge, Principal Maggie Siena said, was figuring out how to set up the large rooms. “It’s so big you want to make sure you don’t have a natural running track.”

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From bobbing for apples to carnival games and spooky stories, there’s Halloween fun Downtown for kids of every age. Celebrations begin on Friday, Oct. 26 with a Halloween movie classic at Trinity Church and continue through Wednesday, Oct. 31, with a kids party at the offices of Warburg Realty on Hudson Street.

A screening of the Halloween children’s movie, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by an organ demonstration for kids at 6 pm. At 7:30 pm, there is a showing of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1920) starring John Barrymore, with accompaniment by the church organist Julian Wachner. Friday, Oct. 26. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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Stories with a Touch of Spooky” in Teardrop Park, Battery Park City.

Saturday, Oct 27, 11 am. Free. bpcparks.org.

12. Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 am–2 pm. $8; $5 children. Under 2 free. New York City Police Museum, 100 Old Slip, nycpm.org.

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ARTS, CRAFTS & PLAY ART OF THE PLAINS: LEDGERS Ledger art-making activity. Mondays– Saturdays, 10 am. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

PRESCHOOL PLAY For toddlers. Mondays–Wednesdays (except 10/8), 10 am. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

GAMES AND CRAFTS Ages 5 and up. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm at Teardrop Park.; Thursdays, 3:30 pm at Rockefeller Park near Warren Street.

Free. bpcparks.org.

PRESCHOOL ART Projects using clay, wood, paint and paper. Thursdays, 10:30 am. Free. Rockefeller Park near Warren Street, bpcparks.org.

SO SEW TALL Use various materials to build an urban factory. Ages 7 and up. Sat, 10/6, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

MODEL BOATS Visit the Seaport’s tall ships, then make and decorate a model ship. Ages 5–12.

Sat, 10/27, 10:30 am. $15. South Street Seaport Museum, Pier 16, seany.org.

KA-BOOM! INSIDE OUT & UNMASKED Learn about comic books’ depictions of Asian-Americans, followed by an art project. Sat, 10/27, 1 pm. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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This year’s annual event offers bobbing for apples, games (including “Toss a Spider in the Brew,” “Pin a Face on the Pumpkin” and “Gourd Roll”), art projects, a costume swap center (kids exchange last year’s costume), a giant scarecrow and witch and a marching band.

Throughout the afternoon, Poets House Children’s Room Director Mike Romanos reads his favorite scary verses by such poets as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack Prelutsky. Kids then write their own Pooh meets a clown at last year’s Halloween party at Warburg Realty on Hudson Street.

program for boys and girls, ages 8 to 14, under direction of Catherine Gallant.

Techniques of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Sat, 10/13, 11 am. Moving Visions Dance Studio, 19 Murray St., dancesbyisadora.com.

FILM EVERYBODY DANCE! Short children’s films about Native American dance. Daily. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

MONSTERS, INC. Children’s feature film and pizza. Fri, 10/19, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

MUSIC RANDY KAPLAN Country, blues and stories. Sun, 10/7, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

ASTROGRASS Bluegrass, folk and humor with dance contests, poetry and plenty of audience participation. Sun, 10/14, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

SCIENCE FAIR Science-themed musical extravaganza.

Sun, 10/21, 11 am. $15; free under 2.

92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

SCIENCE & NATURE FALL PLANTING Plant tulips in the park, plus snacks and related kids’ activities. Sat, 10/20, 10 am. Free. Bowling Green, Broadway at Beaver Street, downtownny.com.

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STUDIO TOURS Visit a studio that produces kids’ films and TV fare. Reservations are required.

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 am & 4 pm. $10. Little Airplane Studio, 207 Front St., littleairplane.com.

HARMONY ON THE HUDSON Circus puppet theater, food, doubledutch jump-roping, art activities and more. Sun, 10/14, 1–5 pm. Free.

Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

GO FISH Catch-and-release fishing, nature education, art projects and live music. Sat. 10/20, 10 am–2 pm. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Place, bpcparks.org.

STORIES & POETRY CHILDREN’S STORYTIME An hour of stories for all ages.

Saturdays, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

GIVING THANKS Hear Indian stories, then make a ALATAIR MOOCK Singer and songwriter performs folk music for kids on Sunday, Oct. 28, 11 a.m. at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. $15; free under 2. 92ytribeca.org.

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Halloween poems. The costume parade starts at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, 12–3 pm. Free. World Financial Center, 220 Vesey St., worldfinancialcenter.com.

Washington Market Park’s annual Halloween Party and Parade begins at 12:45 p.m. at Beach and Greenwich streets with the lineup for the parade down Greenwich Street. Park games include Monster Toss, Hay Maze, Penny in a Haystack, Bone Dig in the Sandbox. Singers Princess Katie and Racer Steve will entertain. Sunday, Oct. 28, 1–3 pm. Rain or shine. Free.

Greenwich Street at Duane, washingtonmarketpark.org. Sponsored by the Friends of Washington Market Park.

PARK PARTY AND PARADE

“Super Heroes and Super Villains” is the theme for the annual kids’ party at Warburg Realty office. There will be games and prizes from local vendors and Halloween treats. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 3–6 pm. Free. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St., 212-380-2415.

SUPER HEROES AND VILLAINS

corn husk doll. Sat, 10/13, 1 pm. Free.

National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

DANIEL THE MIRACLE BEAGLE Daniel the miracle beagle and his two human friends share an amazing story of survival. Sat, 10/27, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

THEATER CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNE Performance by actress Christina Rosse about Anne Frank, followed by a Q&A about Frank’s life. Reservations required.

Sat, 10/6, 1 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors, ages 9–16; free under 8. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

MARIO THE MAGICIAN Magic, tricks and humor (see page 29).

Sun, 10/7, 2:30 pm. $20; $10 kids. Space on White, 81 White St., mariothemagician.com.

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Middle School Choice Can Be a Quandary Everywhere they meet these days, parents of 5th graders are beginning to commiserate with one another over how to squeeze middle school tours into their busy schedules. More important, they wonder how to decide which school is the best fit for their children.

For many, the search begins this month with the District 2 Middle School Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at P.S. 40 (320 East 20th CONNIE St.), when famSCHRAFT ilies can learn about all the schools at once, and speak to principals, parent coordinators, and, sometimes, students.

Reactions to this fair range “Infrom SCHOOL credible!” to TALK “Mayhem!”

With 16 District 2 middle schools, plus several citywide programs to which any city student can apply, the search can seem daunting.

It hasn’t always been that way. The only public junior high for Lower Manhattan children was once I.S. 70 on West 17th Street (now home to the NYC Lab School). But in the 1980s, Downtown parents, uneasy with IS 70’s reputation for large classes and rough students,

wanted more options. District 2 began opening small, themed middle schools and the choice process was born.

A look at District 2’s directory of middle schools, which 5th grade parents received in September, shows how far that choice has come in the last 20 years.

In addition to details about the application process, the directory outlines the schools’ programs and specialties, as well as what they consider for admission.

(Yes, many parents compare this process to a college search.) The Salk School of Science, for instance, has a partnership with the NYU School of Medicine, and

cess, and PPAS (Professional Performing Arts School) on West 48th Street, which requires an audition. Learning the acronyms alone can be a challenge.

With so many schools to choose from, parents sometimes wish that 5th graders moved en masse from elementary school to junior high, the way it worked when they were growing up. But choice, the cornerstone of educational initiatives these days, means you can consider a school on East 91st Street (East Side Middle) as well as neighborhood schools. In recent years with I.S. 276 (in Battery Park City) and the Lower

In the months after 5th grade graduation ceremonies, the invisible thread connecting parent and child stretches and strains. gives its own assessment to students who put it first on their application. Quest to Learn, whose theme is “Systems-Thinking/21st Century Skills” works with Parsons and admits students by lottery.

After checking out the directory or attending the middle school fair, parents are ready to sign up for tours, which begin this month and continue throughout the fall. Some look at citywide schools such as NEST + m (New Explorations in Science, Technology and Math) on the Lower East Side, which has its own application and admissions pro-

Manhattan Community Middle School (in the Financial District) joining I.S. 289 on Warren Street, Downtown parents who don’t want their children far from home have additional options. Of P.S. 89’s June 2012 graduates, more than half are attending one of those local schools.

For some families, the middle school process is an adventure—a chance to tour different schools, hear principals present their programs and see teachers and students in action. For others, it is an ordeal that adds to the pressures of raising children, and offers only the illusion

of choice. Those parents argue that in fact the more popular middle schools pick the students they want.

Others consider many of the schools simply too far away. After years of walking their children to school or seeing them off on a yellow bus, parents have strong feelings about sending their 11year-olds to distant schools, imagining all sorts of horrors awaiting them as they negotiate street corners, traffic lights and, worst of all, the subway system.

But in the months after 5th grade graduation ceremonies, those 11-yearolds go to sleep-away camp, grow a few inches, and wander the neighborhood with friends. The invisible thread connecting parent and child stretches and strains. “I wish I had expanded my middle school search,” one parent told me when her child was in 7th grade. “He’s all over the city now.”

At a middle school tour I once attended, the principal said something I have always remembered: There is nothing taught in middle school, he said, that will not be taught again in high school.

Parents looked puzzled. What middle school teaches, he went on to say, is how to take notes, do homework efficiently and become organized, key skills needed for their success as students—and, someday, as adults.

Connie Schraft is the P.S. 89 parent coordinator. For questions about Downtown schools, write connie@tribecatrib.com.

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BLOCK BASH The BPC party returns, bigger and better than ever

I thought last year was big. This year is bigger,” said Anthony Notaro, standing amid the swirl of activity at the 11th annual Battery Park City Block Party last month.

Notaro and Rosalie Joseph, the duo that has put on the ever-expanding event from the beginning, swore that the 10th year would be their last. As it turned out, they managed to recruit more volunteers, but remained in charge. “We were able to give a lot of guidance and support,” Joseph said.

And it paid off, with new activities such as boat rides and wine tastings, plus awards to community leader Kathleen Gupte and dance teacher Elizabeth Flores and more vendors and organizations participating than ever.

“The spirit was so high,” Joseph said, “and people felt like they were really celebrating Battery Park City.”

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THE BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER performs at Harmony on the Hudson: The Family Festival on Oct. 14, 1 to 5 p.m., at Wagner Park in Battery Park City.

BPC Parks: So Much Going On

Although we are less than three months away from winter, the 37 acres of Battery Park City’s parks still beckon with blooming flowers, nesting birds and a slew of outdoor activities sponsored by the park’s Conservancy.

There is still time, for example, to join an al fresco ART CLASS with a live model (Wednesdays, 2:30 p.m. at South Cove), sketch the Hudson (Saturdays, 10 a.m. at South Cove) or be inspired by the park’s lush gardens (Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.) in Wagner Park. If you’d like to draw and listen to poetry at the same time, join the POETRY WALK (Sunday, Oct. 14, 2 p.m.) in Rockefeller Park, led by a poet who also provides sketchbooks.

The park’s horticulturists shun the use of toxic pest control, and you can find the secret to their success on a horticulturist-led GARDEN TOUR (Wednesday, Oct. 17, 11 a.m.) of Wagner Park’s so-called “hot” gardens, with their bright red-and-orange flowers, and “cool” gardens, heavy on blue and purple hues.

The park is an excellent place for a BIRD WATCHING tour (Saturday, Oct. 20, 11 a.m.). There have been past sightings of migrating warblers, finches, Brant geese and even hummingbirds, hawks and herons. Binoculars and field guides are available to borrow.

At twilight, Wagner Park reveals itself, quieter and more mysterious.

Hidden in the bushes as darkness falls

are many birds, insects, and other wildlife, just becoming active. A Conservancy naturalist points them out on his NATURE OBSERVATIONS walk (Friday, Oct. 12, 6 p.m.) .

At Wagner Park at HARMONY ON

More than 30 species of fish have been caught off Battery Park City. If you don’t believe that, cast a line during GO FISH (Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) at Wagner Park In addition to catch-and-release fishing (poles are pro-

CARL GLASSMAN

A young angler waits for a catch at last month’s Go Fish, taking place again on Oct. 20

THE HUDSON: THE FAMILY FESTIVAL (Sunday, Oct. 14, 1 to 5 p.m.), the Bread and Puppet Theater will present “The Complete Everything Everywhere Dance Circus,” with its giant puppets. There will also be double-Dutch rope-jumping, three-legged races and potato sack relays. Tom Chapin will perform.

vided), and art projects, at 12:30 p.m., STORYTELLER Perry Ground, a member of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, will weave indigenous tales about the importance of water, starring mythological characters and humorous animals. For more events, go to bpcp.org.

Sculptor Tom Otterness, whose work Downtown can be seen in front of P.S. 234 (a frog snapping up an insect with its outstretched tongue) and in the northwest corner of Rockefeller Park (the sculpture garden called “The Real World”) believes in the “power” of public art. “‘The Real World’ is not like in a gallery,” he has said. “Here, people can start talking about sex, death, class, race, money—all the subjects we don’t usually talk about—with their kids and strangers.”

On Sunday, Oct. 7, at 2 p.m., Dorothea Basile, a contemporary art historian, will lead a tour of Otterness’s “world,” a place where children climb the bronze figures or crouch to converse with them and where adults relish the work’s humor, playfulness and political commentary.

The inspiration for Otterness’s animal figures, he has said, comes from the five years he worked as a

night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, as well as the many hours he spent as a boy catching frogs, turtles and snakes in his boyhood home in Kansas.

The tour is free but space is limited; admission is first come, first served. Meet at “The Real World.”

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40 DANCE g RAW Material Six choreographers perform original pieces. Discussion following Thursday’s performance. Thu, 10/4 & Fri, 10/5, 7:30 pm.

LateNite Performance art, burlesque and experimental theater. Fri, 10/5 & Sat, 10/6, 10 pm.

Sunhwa Chung/Ko-Ryo Dance Theater Dance about immigration and simultaneously adjusting to a new culture while maintaining one’s own. Discussion following Friday’s performance. Wed, 10/17–Fri, 10/19, 7:30 pm; Sat, 10/20, 3 & 7:30 pm. Opening reception: Wed, 10/17, 6:30 pm. All performances: $17; $14 students, seniors. Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St., dnadance.org. g Women and Dabkeh Panel discussion featuring female Levant dance experts addressing issues of gender in performance, followed by dance demonstrations featuring styles ranging from Syrian to Palestinian to the wedding “dabkeh niswaneyyah.” Thu, 10/11, 6:30 pm. $5. Dabkeh-Off Dabkeh dance demonstrations, a lecture on the meaning behind Lebanese and Syrian dance, dabkeh competition and a concert

by Palestinian singer Anas Tabash. Sat, 10/13, 3:30 pm. $20; $5–$15 for individual events.

Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org. g Hava Nagila Hoedown Lessons on how to dance the hora and other Israeli-style dances.

Sun, 10/28, 2:30 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors.

Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Dia de los Muertos Fandango Mexican music group Radio Jarocho demonstrates the traditional way to dance the fandango, followed by a dance party with Mexican music, moves and costumes. Mon, 10/29, 6:30 pm. Free.

World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com.

g Urban Fabric: Building New York’s Garment District Exploration of the 18 blocks

in Midtown that once produced three-fourths of all women’s and children’s apparel in vertical factories, and how those buildings were built and operated. To Sun, 1/20/13. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Wed–Sun, 12–6 pm. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g

Marvels and Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942–1986

Exploration of America’s evolving racial and cultural perceptions and ideas, as depicted by racist and xenophobic images of Asian-Americans and incoming migrants. Alt. Comics: Asian-

American Artists Reinvent the Comic Book Works by Asian-American comic artists.

To Sun, 2/24/13. $10; $5 students, seniors; free

and enslaved men, women and children who lived Downtown. Ongoing. Free. Tue–Sat, 9 am– 4 pm. African Burial Ground Center and National Monument, 290 Broadway, africanburialground.gov. g Dialog in the Dark Experience the New York City environment, including getting on and off a subway and crossing the street at Times Square, relying only on guides for the blind and visually impaired. Ongoing. $23.50; $20.50 children, students; $21.50 seniors.

11 Fulton St., dialognyc.com. g Soul Seekers: Interpreting the Icon A reconsideration of the form, status and relevance of iconography through a collection of works by contemporary artists and designers.

Ongoing. Mon–Fri, 9 am–5:30 pm; Sat–Sun, 9

OCTOBER 2012 THE TRIBECA TRIB pm. $12. Ghost Supernatural romance in which a murder/robbery victim tries to reach his living girlfriend. Fri, 10/12, 7:30 pm. $13. Laia Laia Documentary traces the transformation of Brazilian music from the 1930s to today. Thu, 10/18, 7 pm. $12. The Quiet Earth The world ends and only three people survive. Sun, 10/21, 6 pm. $12. Labyrinth Screening of the film, plus a singalong and costume party. Wed, 10/31, 9 pm. $13. See website for more films.

92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g The Big Red One Semi-autobiographical film that follows the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division from Africa to Europe during WWII. Wed, 10/10, 7 pm. $5. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g

Shellshocked: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves Documentary following efforts to prevent the extinction of oyster reefs, which serve as natural water filters. Thu, 10/18, 6 pm. $20. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org. g

Forgotten Laughter: Comedy from the Silent Era Clips from films

featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bert Williams and Charlie Chase. Tue, 10/23, 7:30 pm. Free. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Screening of the 1920 silent film with live musical accompaniment. Fri, 10/26, 5:30 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, trinitywallstreet.org.

GALLERIES g Post Natural Group exhibition of fellows’ works. To Sun, 10/7. Daily 2– 8 pm. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu. g Rachel Mouial and Shie COCO144+SHIEONE+P.H.A.S.E. Works on paper, canvas and wood, plus an installation incorporating crystals and organic material. To Wed, 10/10.

Salomon Arts Gallery, 83 Leonard St. 4th fl., salomonarts.com. g Jason Craighead, Hyunmee Lee, Doug Stone and Tad Lauritzen Wright Undertone. Group show. To Sat, 10/13. Mon–Fri, 11 am–6 pm; Sat, 12–6 pm; Sun, 12–5 pm. Cheryl Hazan Mosaic Studio, 35 N. Moore St., cherylhazan.com. g Konstantin Bokov 27 years of work, including sculptures made from recycled materials commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. To Wed, 10/17. Van Der Plas Gallery, 89 South St. 2nd fl., vanderplasgallery.com.

EXHIBITIONS g

Andrew Carnegie: Forging Philanthropy

Display on Carnegie’s life and work, with a spotlight on his love of Scotland, his business life and his philanthropic activities. To October.

Checks and Balances: Presidents and American Finance Financial challenges faced

by American presidents. To November. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g Founding Friendships: Celebrating the Legacies of Elizabeth Kray and Stanley Kunitz Artworks and archival material by lead-

ing postwar artists and poets. To Sat, 10/6. Free.

Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 pm; Sat, 11 am–6 pm. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g The Sweet LIFE Photographs of 1950s Italian actors, actresses and directors from the pages of LIFE Magazine. To Fri, 10/12. Free.

World Financial Center, worldfinancialcenter.com.

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A Stately Presence: The NYPD’s Mounted Unit Exploration of the history, which dates to 1858, and day-to-day operations of the police department’s mounted unit, including saddles, photographs, harnesses and other artifacts. To Sun, 11/4. $8; $5 students, seniors, children; free under 2 and service members. Mon–Sat, 10 am–5 pm; Sun, 12–5 pm. New York City Police Museum, 100 Old Slip, nycpm.org. g Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles Rare artifacts about the poet/writer/immigrant advocate, the importance of religious freedom and the struggles that immigrants past and present face. To December. Hava Nagila: A Song for the People Images, video and music tell the story of the wordless melody from Ukraine that became the theme song for Jewish celebrations everywhere. To May 2013. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm.

Sun–Tue, Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g The Stilled Passage: A Photographic Journey through Ellis Island’s Unrestored Buildings Photographs by Philip Calabria. To

Sun, 1/6/13. $13; $10 seniors, $5 ages 4–12; free under 4. Daily, 8:30 am–6:15 pm. Ellis Island Museum. Ferry leaves from Battery Park, nps.org/elis.

EXHIBITION Steven Amadee Framing 41 North Moore St., is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an exhibition of new paintings by Rick Lewis, including reflection_II (above). Mon–Fri, 11 am– 7 pm; Sat , 11 am–6 pm stevenamedee.com

children under 12 and on Thursdays. Mon & Fri, 11 am–5 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm; Sat & Sun, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture Exploration of Native

Americans who have had successful careers in the music industry over the past century. To Sun, 8/11/13. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Selected exhibits: Made In New York Spotlight on designers and manufacturers working and producing in New York City. Coffee, Tea, Fish and the Tattooed Man A historical look at the Seaport. Occupy Wall Street Photographs by more than 70 photojournalists who documented the movement and its clashes. To 10/30. $10; $6 students, seniors; Free under 9. Daily, 10 am–6 pm. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org. g African Burial Ground The story of the free

am–3:45 pm. The Trinity Museum, Broadway at Wall Street, trinitywallstreet.org.

FILM g El Futuro Mas Aca: Vintage Mexican Science Fiction Film series featuring some of

the most iconic Mexican sci-fi movies made from the 1940s through the 1960s. Daily Mon, 10/1–Wed, 10/31. See website for schedule.

Free. World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Selection of upcoming films: Debt Begins at 20 Docufiction about working-class Pittsburgh punk rockers in 1980. Post-screening discussion with director Stephanie Beroes. Wed, 10/3, 7:30 pm. $12. Savage Beach Female agent duo is sent on an emergency mission to recover medical supplies on an uninhabited island. Sat, 10/6, 10 pm. $12. Pola X Interpretation of the Herman Melville novel “Pierre,” about a successful writer who abandons his life to take care of his sister. Sat, 10/13, 6 pm & Mon, 10/15, 7

Gathering. Reflection on the process of seeking and collecting data to fuel the artistic process. The Savage Detectives Group show. To Thu, 10/25. Tue–Sat, 11 am–7 pm; Sun by appointment. RH Gallery, 137 Duane St., rhgallery.com. g Brendan Cass 7 North. Darkly chromatic acrylic paintings of New England landscapes. To Sat, 10/27. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm and by appointment. KANSAS Gallery, 59 Franklin St., kansasgallery.com. g UNREST: Revolt Against Reason Eight artists tackle issues of inequality, conflict and instability in recent history, including the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movements. To Sat, 10/27. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org. g Seokmin Ko The Square. Archival pigment prints of a square mirror in various landscapes.

To Sat, 10/27. Tue–Fri, 11 am–5 pm. Art Projects International, 429 Greenwich St. Suite 5B, artprojects.com. g Jin Shan There Is No End to This Road. Art that critiques authority and responds to how China is being thrust into a global context. To Sat, 10/27. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com.

THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2012 g robbinschilds I Came Here On My Own. Sitespecific performance art incorporating video, soundscapes and dance. Jong Oh Position, Reposition. Site-specific installation. Christopher Duffy I Think I Want My Energy In All Colors. Installation in the gallery storefront. To Sat, 12/15. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art In General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org. g

Abstract Realities: Trends & New Directions in Contemporary Art Group show

with more than a dozen artists. To Fri, 12/21. On view by appointment. Hal Bromm, 90 W. Broadway, halbromm@gmail.com. g Alex Katz Hard Days Ahead. Prints of blackand-white figure paintings. To Mon, 12/31. Tue– Fri, 12–5 pm. The Clocktower, 108 Leonard St., 13th Fl., artonair.org.

LISTINGS ical-action 1964 pipe organ. Wednesdays, 1 pm.

Free. St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway at Fulton St., trinitywallstreet.org. g North Sky Cello Ensemble Original compositions and arrangements for cello. Thu, 10/4, 1 pm. Chicago Symphony Orchestra String Trio Fri, 10/5, 11 am. West Point Woodwind Quintet Works by Bermel, Previn and Harbison.

Thu, 10/11, 1 pm. The Choristers of St. Thomas Church Handel, Bach, Scott and more.

Thu, 10/18, 1 pm. Hugo Wolf Quartet Works for strings. Thu, 10/25, 1 pm. Trinity Youth Chorus American and folk songs. Sun, 10/28, 3 pm. All concerts: free. Trinity Wall Street, Broadway at Wall Street, trinitywallstreet.org. g Selection of upcoming concerts: Silver

10/19, 7:30 pm. $30–$55. Ramsey Lewis and His Electric Band Jazz, R&B and pop. Sat, 10/20, 7:30 pm. $30–$55. Justin Townes Earle, John McCauley and Joe Pug Americana. Fri, 10/26, 7:30 pm. $25–$55; $5 students. Justin Townes Earle, The Low Anthem and Joe Pug Americana. Sat, 10/27, 7:30 pm. $25–$55; $5 students. Béla Fleck Bluegrass, jazz, rock and country on the banjo.

Sun, 10/28, 7:30 pm. $30–$55. Schimmel Center for the Arts., 3 Spruce St., pace.edu. g Eli Yamin Blues Band Blues mixed with classical, bebop and folk sounds. Fri, 10/26, 8 pm. $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

41 g Richard Belzer “Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country’s Most Controversial Cover-ups.”

Wed, 10/3. D.L. Hughley “I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America.” Wed, 10/10. Kirk Hammett “Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection.” Thu, 10/11. Uggie “Uggie: My Story.” Mon, 10/15. Justin Cronin “The Twelve: Book Two of the Passage Trilogy.” Tue, 10/16.

Chris Elliott “The Guy Under the Sheets: An Unauthorized Autobiography.” Wed, 10/17.

Frederick Kaufman “Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food.” Wed, 10/24. All readings: 6 pm, free. See website for more readings.

Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g

Wheel with a Single Spoke: The Life and Work of Romanian Poet Nichita Stancescu Reading of Stanescu’s works by translator Sean Cotter. Wed, 10/3, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Omnidawn’s Celebration and Reading More than a dozen poets read their poetry. Fri, 10/5, 6 pm. Free. The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz Reading of the volume from start to finish, plus a gallery tour. Sat, 10/6, 12 pm. Free. Beyond the Margins Contributors read from June S. Gould’s new volume. Fri, 10/12, 7 pm. $5. An Evening

in Honor of Taha Muhammad Ali Reading of the late poet’s direct, humorous and devastating poems about political conflict. Tue, 10/16, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Page Meets Stage Joseph O. Legaspi and Cheryl Boyce-Taylor read. Wed, 10/17, 8 pm. $12; $6 students. L.S. Asekcoff Poet reads his work, followed by a discussion with former U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine. Tue, 10/23, 7 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Andrew Nagorski “Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power.” Wed, 10/3, 7 pm. Rich Cohen “The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King.” Wed, 10/17, 7 pm. All readings: $10. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g

Susan Tunick and Andrew S. Dolkart

“Almost Anonymous & Ubiquitous: George & Edward Blum’s Speculative Architecture.” Tue, 10/9, 6:30 pm. Free.

Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g Lucy Lang and Amor Towles Writers CARL GLASSMAN INSIDE TRIBECA LOFT TOUR The 13th annual Tribeca loft tour takes place Sunday, Oct. 14, from 1 to 5 p.m. The 10 lofts open to the public range read their poetry and prose. Tue, 10/9, 7 from a Watts Street eight-room triplex (see above) to an artist’s loft with his work-filled studio to an apartment with a three-story climbing wall that pm. Free. Pen Parentis, 75 Wall St., penparhas appeared in many movie and tv shoots, including “White Collar.” Tickets are $60 in advance at duanepark.org; $65 beginning at 12:30 p.m. on entis.org. the day of the event in Duane Park, at Hudson and Duane streets, subject to availability. There is a separate $25 ticket for the tour of a four-floor g Odes to Autumn Poetry Walk Poet penthouse in the Financial District ($30 day of tour). Proceeds go to Friends of Duane Park, which organizes the event, for the upkeep and improve- reads in the park. Sketching materials provided. Free. Sun, 10/14, 2 pm. Rockefeller ment of Duane Park as well as the restoration of other public areas in Tribeca.

Park near Warren Street, bpcparks.org. g Marcia Reiss “Lost New York.” Thu, 10/25, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Apples, CFCF and Win Win Psychedelic and Museum, 54 Pearl St., g Lynda Capse: Landscapes for Every electronica. Fri, 10/5, 8:30 pm. $12. The Lisps frauncestavernmuseum.org.

Season. To Tue, 1/1/13. Sovereign Bank, 110 Indie rock album release party and concert. Sat, g Peter Lippman “Evidence-Based Design of Hudson St. 10/6, 8:30 pm. $15. I Feel So Good: A Elementary and Secondary Schools: A Respong Photographs: Marky Kauffmann Prayer Celebration of Big Bill Broonzy, featuring sive Approach to Creating Learning Envig Taino Culture Discussion of Taino culture Images. Susan Bowen Streets of Cuba: Billy Boy Arnold Talk on the 1940s Chicago ronments.” Tue, 10/2, 6 pm. Carrie Lobman past and present, including traditional objects Overlapping Exposure Panoramas. Jean blues world followed by a performance by “Unscripted Learning: Using Improvisation and their uses. Mondays, 2 pm. Tainos Nestares Multiplex. Karen St. John Vincent Arnold of Broonzy’s works. Thu, 10/11, 6:30 pm. across the K–8 Curriculum.” Tue, 10/16, 6 pm.

Encounter Columbus Talk on the history and Vacancy: Film Stills. Arnie Kastenbaum $15. BETTY Pop rock singer/songwriters. Fri, All talks: free. City College Center for Worker culture of the Taino people of the Caribbean and Polemics. Ruth Ruskin Las Vegas City Center.

10/12, 9 pm. $10. Emily Warren & the Education, 25 Broadway, 7th fl., how the arrival of the Spanish changed that way Susan Keiser After the Fall. Wed, 10/3–Sat, Betters, Mandy Lee, Alison Valentine and downtownny.com. of life. Thu, 10/11, 6 pm. Teaching about 11/3. Opening reception: Tue, 10/2, 6 pm.

Phoebe Ryan Teen pop singers. Sat, 10/13, 8 g Christopher Buehlman “Between Two Native People from New York Educator Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho pm. $10. See website for more concerts.

Fires.” Tue, 10/2, 6 pm. Eric Stebbins “The workshop on new ways to teach the history, culPhoto, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

Ragnorak Conspiracy.” Tue, 10/9, 6 pm. Joelle ture and contemporary stories of Native g Art for Animals Artwork by eight artists, g Monk at 95: Countdown to 100 Pianists Charbonneau “Skating on the Edge.” Mon, Americans. Registration required. Thu, 10/18, with profits to benefit Rescuzilla Animal Rescue perform various bebop and jazz pieces in com10/15, 6 pm. Karen Engelmann “The 3:45 pm. All events: free. National Museum of of NYC. Wed, 10/3–Wed, 10/31. Opening memoration of Thelonious Monk’s birthday.

Stockholm Octavo.” Wed, 10/24, 6 pm. the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, reception: Wed, 10/3, 6 pm. Bond New York, 25 Wed, 10/10, 12–3 pm. Antibalas 12-piece William Heffernan “When Johnny Came nmai.si.edu.

Hudson St., bondnewyork.com.

Afrobeat ensemble. Tue, 10/23, 8 pm. Vijay Marching Home” and Patricia Smith Editor of g Selection of upcoming talks: Jack Black: In g Clara Désiré While Dreaming, Sounds My Iyer Jazz pianist. Wed, 10/24, 8 pm. Brooklyn “Staten Island Noir,” with contributor readings.

Conversation with Peter Travers Actor and Loud and Wild Cry. Thu, 10/4–Sat, 10/27.

Philharmonic Celebration of the variety of Tue, 10/30, time TBA. All readings: free. musician discusses his professional work, Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin St., music that permeates the borough, including Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriincluding his new film, “Bernie.” Tue, 10/2, 8:15 hionasgallery.com. steel drum music. Thu, 10/25, 8 pm. All conousbookshop.com. pm. $34. Baked Elements Owners of g Robert and Lynn Bianchi The Body and certs: free. World Financial Center, worldfinang John Staddon “The Malign Hand of the Brooklyn’s Baked bakery talk about how they Beyond. Digital chromatic prints. Thu, 10/4– cialcenter.com.

Markets.” Wed, 10/3, 12:30 pm. $5. Neil quit their day jobs to pursue their passion for Sat, 10/27. Opening reception: Thu, 10/4, 6 pm. g Zakir Hussain Tabla percussionist performs Barofsky “Bailout: An Inside Account of How sweets. Thu, 10/4, 6:30 pm. $28. Emerging One Art Space, 23 Warren St., oneartspace.com. classical Indian music. Sat, 10/13, 7:30 pm.

Washington Abandoned Main Street While Metropolis Talk on New York’s transformation $30–$55.

American Showstoppers Rescuing Wall Street.” Thu, 10/25, 5:30 pm. into a Jewish city at the turn of the 20th centuBroadway, American songbook and Hollywood Free. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., songs accompanied by a 12-piece orchestra. Fri, g Pipes at One Performances on the mechan(CONTINUED ON PAGE 42) moaf.org.

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ry. Tue, 10/9, 12 pm. $21. On Ernest Hemingway Exploration of the writer’s public image and how it has influenced later generations. Mon, 10/15, 12 pm. $21. Edible Selby Panel discussion on popular New York City eateries. Wed, 10/17, 7 pm. $15. Person Place Thing Live! with Brandi Carlile Musician Carlile in conversation with Randy Cohen. Wed, 10/31, 7 pm. $18. See website for more talks. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g Photo slideshow talks: Vienna, Austria 10/2. Indonesia 10/9.

Morocco and Andalusia 10/16.

New York City Farmlands 10/23.

The Five Dutch Days of New York 10/30. All talks: Tuesdays, 6 pm, $2.

Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St., tuesdayeveninghour.com. g Art and Culture Lecture Series: Adam Gopnick Writer and cultural critic for the New Yorker. 10/3.

Jocelyn Hobbie Artist. 10/17.

Michele C. Cone Writer, art critic and historian. 10/24. Walton Ford Artist. 10/31. All talks: Wednesdays, 7:30 pm. Free. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu. g The Craft of Poetry Talk on what new elements are at work in contemporary poetry, including collage and sonic play. Thu, 10/4, 7 pm. Poetry PHOTOFEST Slam? Or Slam Poetry? Discussion and demonstration of the poetry slam FILM A screening of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1920) starring John Barrymore will be shown in Trinity and what makes a poem come alive Church on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. The silent movie will be accompanied by music played by church through performance. Wed, 10/10, 7 organist Julian Wachner. Free. Trinity Church is at Broadway and Wall Street. trinitywallstreet.org. pm. The Poetics of Kitsch Panel explores the trivial material objects Immigration, An American Debate Historians at Auschwitz. Wed, 10/17, 8 pm. $12; $8 stuand poetry that play a crucial role in our culture. explore immigrants’ positions within American dents, seniors. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., Sat, 10/20, 3 pm. All talks, $10; $7 students, sen- public discourse as either a resource or a burden. annefrank.com. iors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, Sun, 10/21, 2:30 pm. All talks: $10; $7 students, poetshouse.org. seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery g Careers in the Arts: Opportunities in Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Tribute WTC 9/11 Tours of Ground Zero.

Public Arts Panel discussion with experts in Daily, hourly 11 am–3 pm; Sat, hourly 11 am–4 nonprofit and local government. Tue, 10/9, 6:15 pm. $10; $5 ages 6–12. Visitors Center, 120 pm. Free. Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, Room g Job A dark comedy in which Satan makes a bet Liberty St., tributewtc.org.

W614, pace.edu. with God that he can make a Job, wise judge of g Tribeca: New Diversity from an Industrial g Selection of upcoming talks: The Thinking an Israelite tribe, blaspheme against God. Past Learn about the neighborhood’s transformaApe: The Enigma of Human Consciousness Thursdays–Sundays to Sun, 10/7, 7 pm. $20. tion from food center to residential use. Meet at Panel discussion on the similarities and differHeresy The story of Christ, taking place in mod- 200 Hudson St. Tue, 10/2, 10:30 am. $28. Civic ences between human and animal consciousern times in which Mary and Joseph go to Center and Historic City Hall Focus on ness. Wed, 10/10, 7 pm. $15; $10 students.

Homeland Security because their protesting son, Downtown government buildings, plus a tour of Black Holes and Astrobiology Talk on the Chris, has been arrested in the latest crackdown. City Hall’s interior. Meet at Foley Square. Thu, study of non-earthling life. Tue, 10/23, 7:30 pm.

Tuesdays–Sundays, 7:30 pm & Saturdays & 10/18, 10 am. $30. 92YTribeca, 92ytribeca.org. $10; $5 students. See website for more talks.

Sundays, 3 pm to Sun, 11/4. $10–$50. The Flea g Immigrant New York Visit sites associated New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org. with various immigrants. Meet at City Hall Park, St. 40th fl., nyas.org. g Hamlet A production from the London’s Globe Broadway at Chambers. Tue, 10/2, 2 pm; Sat, g The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Theatre. Co-directed by Dominic Dromgoole, 10/6, 1 pm; Mon, 10/8 & Wed, 10/17, 11 am; Green in the Gilded Age Biographer Janet artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, and Thu, 10/25, 2 pm. The Financial District Meet Wallach discusses the life of Green, whose forGlobe regular Bill Buckhurst. Tue, 10/2–Sun, at Broadway and Wall, Trinity Church. Fri, 10/5, tune was worth the contemporary equivalent of 10/7. See website for times. $30–$55. Schimmel Wed, 10/24 & Tue, 10/30, 11 am. Gangs of more than $2 billion when she died in 1916. Thu, Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu.

New York The Five Points. Meet at SE corner of 10/11, 5:30 pm. Free. Andrew Carnegie and g Hooray for the Hypocrites Reunion Show!

Carnegie Hall Gino Francesconi, Director of Comedians Elliott Kalan and Brock Mahan, plus Broadway and Chambers. Sun, 10/7, 11 am; Tue, Archives and Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall, dis- guests from “The Daily Show” perform sketch 10/9 & Wed, 10/24, 2 pm. Revolutionary New cusses its founding by Andrew Carnegie. Wed, comedies. Thu, 10/4, 10/11 & 10/18, 9 pm. $10. York Meet on Broadway at Murray. Mon, 10/8, 2 pm. Historic Lower Manhattan Meet at the 10/24, 12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Gorgeous Ladies of Comedy Standup comedy U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green. Wed, Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. by female comics. Wed, 10/17, 9 pm. $10.

10/10, 11 am; Tue, 10/16, 2 pm. Irish New g Ethics of Embedded Journalism Reporters 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

York Meet at St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and and photographers discuss the risks and ethical g ETTY One-woman play adapted from the Fulton. Sat, 10/13, 12 pm. Seaport Historic implications of embedded journalism in military diaries and letters by Esther “Etty” Hillesum, a District Meet at Broadway and Fulton. Sat, units. Sun, 10/14, 2:30 pm. Huddled Masses: young Jewish woman who was deported and died

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10/20, 12 pm. All tours: $15; $12 students, seniors. New York City Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g Ninety-minute tours of the Financial District: History of Wall Street Sat, 10/6, 1 pm.

Titans of Industry Emphasis on Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and others. Wed, 10/24, 11 am. Great Crash Anniversary Tour Sat, 10/27, 1 pm. All tours: $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g Chinatown: A Walk Through History Tour of the contemporary neighborhood and explanation of how it has evolved over 400 years to become one of the fastest-growing immigrant communities in New York. 10/6, 10/13 & 10/20. From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Tour of Chinatown eateries that highlights their evolution and influence on the community.

10/27. All tours: Sat, 1 pm, $15; $12 students, seniors, free under 5. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g Twilight Nature Observations: Fall With a naturalist, observe the birds, insects and other wildlife that become active at dusk in Battery Park. Fri, 10/12, 6 pm. Garden Tour Horticulturlist explains the organic gardening methods used in the Wagner Park gardens. Wed, 10/17, 11 am. All tours: free. Meet at Wagner Park near Battery Place. Sponsored by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. bpcparks.org.

ET CETERA g Walk NYC Instructors lead fitness walks.

Mondays, 12 pm. Free. Meet at flagpole in Battery Park, downtownny.com. g Trinity Knitters Knit or crochet items for shutins and others. Yarn, needles and instruction provided. Tue, 10/2, 5 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org. g Adopt-A-Geranium The Downtown Alliance will be giving away 4,000 geraniums. Wed, 10/10, 10 am. Fall Planting Plant tulips in the park. Gardening supplies and refreshments provided. Sat, 10/20, 10 am. All events: free.

Bowling Green, Broadway at Beaver, downtownny.com. g Generating, Revising, Polishing: The Practice of Poetry Writing Workshop to work

on unfinished poems, focusing on language, rhythm and form. Thursdays, 10/11–11/15, 6 pm. $295/6 classes. Begin to Build a Poem Poetry introductory class. Fridays, 10/12–11/16, 2 pm. $225/6 classes. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Wall Street Collectors Bourse Show and auction for financial history enthusiasts, with financial collectibles related to historical events.

Thu, 10/18, 12–8 pm; Fri, 10/19, 10 am–4 pm; Sat, 10/20, 10 am–3 pm. Free. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g In the Loop Knit and crochet items for families in Habitat for Humanity homes in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Fri, 10/19, 12 pm. Free. World Financial Center, worldfinancialcenter.com. ∆g Bird Watching A birder/naturalist identifies some of the many varieties of birds that live in and pass through Battery Park City. Binoculars provided. Sat, 10/20, 11 am. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org. g Blake Ian Limited edition release of 7” copies of his record “Play the King,” Original artwork signed by artist Peter Tunney. Wed, 10/24, 7 pm.

Peter Tunney Art, 73 Franklin St., tunneyart.com.

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Discover the history of the melody that became a worldwide theme song. mjhnyc.org/hava

Ethics of Embedded Journalism SUN | OCT 14 | 2:30 P.M. Judith Matloff (Columbia Journalism School), Santiago Lyon (AP), Quil Lawrence (NPR), and Carolyn Cole (LA Times) explore the role of embedded journalists and the ethical implications of their presence in military units.

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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King WED | OCT 17 | 7 P.M. Rich Cohen discusses his latest work with David Lipsky (Rolling Stone) about Samuel Zemurray, the poor Russian immigrant who became head of the United Fruit Company, was involved in the creation of Israel, and helped topple Central American governments.

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